Memorial Service

Anne A. Coulbourn, a homemaker and volunteer, died Aug. 31 of lung cancer at the Blakehurst retirement community. She was 82. The daughter of a stockbroker and a homemaker, the former Anne Adams was born in Baltimore and raised in Ruxton. After graduating in 1947 from Bryn Mawr School, she briefly studied at Sweet Briar College, before earning a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art . Before her 1953 marriage to Lewin Wethered, an attorney, she worked as a commercial artist in the advertising department of the old O'Neill & Co. department store.

In a washed-out video projected on the wall of Bethany United Methodist Church at her memorial service Saturday, Rose Louese Mayr tumbled and fluttered in a dance portrayal of a girl with her eyes turned toward God. The dance put on display one of the many talents family and friends ascribed to the 2010 Mount Hebron High School graduate, killed last week in an Ellicott City train derailment along with longtime friend Elizabeth Conway Nass. Ms. Mayr's pastors said they hoped her performance would also offer mourners some comfort.

Mildred J. Hailey, a homemaker and volunteer, died Monday of heart failure at Vasona Creek Rehabilitation Center in San Jose, Calif. The former Linthicum Heights resident was 87. The daughter of a businessman and a homemaker, the former Mildred Jones was born and raised in Cardiff, Wales, where she graduated from Howell's School for Girls. While working for the Red Cross during World War II, she met an American serviceman from Kentucky, William Thomas Hailey, who was with the 889th Signal Corps attached to the 8th Air Force.

Robert S. "Barry" Skinner III, a Baltimore businessman and sports fan, died Sunday of a heart attack at his home in the Hampton neighborhood of Baltimore County. He was 54. Robert Stansbury Skinner III, who was known as "Barry," was born in Baltimore and raised in Wiltondale and later in Hampton. After graduating in 1976 from Towson High School, he attended Denison University in Granville, Ohio, for two years before transferring to Towson University, where he played lacrosse and earned a bachelor's degree in 1980.

Roberta L. Nevitt, a retired social worker who had worked for the Baltimore County Department of Aging, died July 27 of cancer at the Hospice of the Piedmont in Charlottesville, Va. She was 64. Roberta Lee Nevitt was born in Atlanta and later moved with her family to Baltimore, where she grew up in Govans. She was a 1965 graduate of Eastern High School and earned a bachelor's degree in 1968 from Kalamazoo College in Michigan and a master's in social work from the University of Maryland in 1973.

In September 1972, the world watched in disbelief as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by the Palestinian terrorist organization "Black September" at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich. The story, and Israel's decade-long retaliation, have been captured in countless movies, books and miniseries. Germany had planned to show a new face to the world. The 1972 games were to be the antithesis of Hitler's Olympics. They were informally called "The Carefree Games. " As a result, security was decidedly lax. On Sept.

Robert F. "Hop" Crooks, a retired Social Security Administration computer programmer, died Monday of complications from a massive epileptic seizure at Marshall Medical Center in Placerville, Calif. The longtime Oella and Catonsville resident was 65. Born in Baltimore and raised in Arbutus, Mr. Crooks was a 1964 graduate of Catonsville High School, where he had been an indoor and outdoor track star. After graduating from high school, he attended what as then Catonsville Community College.

Dolores Jane "Dollie" Epstein, a former office worker and master seamstress, died Monday of multiple organ failure at her Lutherville home. She was 79. The daughter of an accountant and a homemaker, the former Dolores Jane "Dollie" Moeller was born in Baltimore and raised on Gibbons Avenue in Hamilton. She was a graduate of Clara Barton Vocational High School, where she studied to become a master seamstress. After her marriage to Robert I. Epstein, a mechanical engineer, in 1959, the coupled settled on Tunbridge Road in Homeland, where they raised their seven children.

Bette W. Dudley, a homemaker and gardener, died of multiple myeloma May 22 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 64 and lived in Stevenson. Born Bette Wallenhorst in Cincinnati, she earned a degree in art history and Spanish from Chatham University and a master's degree in business administration from Loyola University Maryland. She moved to Baltimore after working at a Philadelphia insurance firm. While an outpatient at Kernan Hospital, she met her future husband, Dr. Albert Henry "Hank" Dudley III. In Baltimore, she initially worked as a consultant to the Hospital Association of Maryland, arranging executive and staff retreats.

Pamela Furness Engel, an Anne Arundel County biology teacher and teaching adviser, died of pancreatic cancer May 16 at Baltimore-Washington Medical Center. She was 58 and lived in Linthicum. Born Pamela Furness in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville and Columbia, she was a 1971 Atholton High School graduate. She earned a degree in biology at what is now McDaniel College and had a second degree in education at the Notre Dame of Maryland University, as well as a master's degree in biology from Towson University.